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Political Concepts in Ancient India
(5) Medhatithi under ManuSam, VIII. 149
explains Adhi as a 'bandhakadravya' and men-
tions go (cow), bhu (land), hiranya (gold) as
examples.
ĀDHIPATYA-(1) A type of monarchy. The term
occurs in an oath of the Aitareya Brāhmaṇa
(VIII. 15)
(2) Sāyana explains the term as 'lordship over
the other Kings of heaven' after retirement from
the earth.
(3) A.B. Keith renders the term as 'overlord-
ship'.³
ABHYANTARA KOPA-Antagonism towards the
King on the part of any one of the Mantri, the
Purohita, the Senapati and the Yuvarāja. (AS'
IX. 3).*
AYA-State Revenue or the income of the State.
(Yajnavalkya, I. 322, 326 etc. Manu Sam, VIII.
419).'
AYATIPRADARS'ANA-One of the five varieties
of Sama (conciliation). It is based on a ref-
erence to the prospect of mutual benefit that
should result from the policy of friendship. cf.
asminnevaṁ krta idamavāyorbhavatītyāśājananam
ayatipradaras'anam (AS' II. 10).
3. Basu, IAB, pp. 87 f..
4. mantripurohitasenā patiyuvarā jānāma nyatamakopo'bhyan-
tara kopah.
5. What is received by the King in the countryside as re-
venue (Bhāga) is also called Aya. Cf. grāmeṣu svāmigrāhyo bhāga
āyaḥ (Siddhāntakaumudi, quoted by Apte, p. 84).
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Political Concepts in Ancient India
(5) Medhatithi under ManuSam, VIII. 149
explains Adhi as a 'bandhakadravya' and men-
tions go (cow), bhu (land), hiranya (gold) as
examples.
ĀDHIPATYA-(1) A type of monarchy. The term
occurs in an oath of the Aitareya Brāhmaṇa
(VIII. 15)
(2) Sāyana explains the term as 'lordship over
the other Kings of heaven' after retirement from
the earth.
(3) A.B. Keith renders the term as 'overlord-
ship'.³
ABHYANTARA KOPA-Antagonism towards the
King on the part of any one of the Mantri, the
Purohita, the Senapati and the Yuvarāja. (AS'
IX. 3).*
AYA-State Revenue or the income of the State.
(Yajnavalkya, I. 322, 326 etc. Manu Sam, VIII.
419).'
AYATIPRADARS'ANA-One of the five varieties
of Sama (conciliation). It is based on a ref-
erence to the prospect of mutual benefit that
should result from the policy of friendship. cf.
asminnevaṁ krta idamavāyorbhavatītyāśājananam
ayatipradaras'anam (AS' II. 10).
3. Basu, IAB, pp. 87 f..
4. mantripurohitasenā patiyuvarā jānāma nyatamakopo'bhyan-
tara kopah.
5. What is received by the King in the countryside as re-
venue (Bhāga) is also called Aya. Cf. grāmeṣu svāmigrāhyo bhāga
āyaḥ (Siddhāntakaumudi, quoted by Apte, p. 84).
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